# Resetting playback position clears played status

**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/resetting-playback-position-clears-played-status/5220
**Category:** Bug report
**Created:** [July 29, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/resetting-playback-position-clears-played-status/5220 "2024-07-29T23:13:25Z")
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### Author: ![Tagarela\_Midia](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/tagarela_midia/32/2565_2.png) [@Tagarela\_Midia](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Tagarela_Midia)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/resetting-playback-position-clears-played-status/5220/5 "2024-12-09T21:45:51Z")

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> [@Thub](#):
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> Marking multi-selected episodes as played works for me, as does marking paused episodes as played as well as the opposite.

Works for me too, but doesn’t reset the playback position as you described, which does work for a single episode.

> [@Thub](#):
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> I can see why they might want to leave the playback position in place when toggling the played state. People are going to be annoyed if they accidentally swipe and lose their position, this allows for a quick “undo”.

Fair enough. This then makes even more the case for _reset playback position_ not interfering with the played state, since in that case toggling the played state doesn’t interfere with the playback position.

> [@Thub](#):
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> I guess I still don’t understand why the played state is important if you’re about to listen to it again anyway.

Bc I’d rather play, and the kid would rather listen to, an unlistened episode, but if there aren’t any, then a rerun of a listened episode from a favourite podcast will do. Indeed it seems a lot of the functionality in AP stems from this assumption that podcasts will only be listened to once, which is generally true of news and commentary podcasts but not of time insensitive content, e.g.:

> [@How to auto-download queued episodes?](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/how-to-auto-download-queued-episodes/4683/6):
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> My use case of podcasts is not as source of news or current affairs, but rather as a library (kids stories usually, but I think this is the case of anyone listening to time insensitive content). It’s not often we’re waiting for new episodes; we’re more often rummaging for podcasts, and binge listening to all episodes till we move on to the next one.
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> In either case, it’d make more sense for AntennaPod to set queued episodes for download than inboxed ones (and if it is set to put new episodes in the queue, it’d download them too).

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